ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,930, issued on July 14, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Retrieval augmented generation" was invented by Lei Gu (Bedford, Mass.) and Iskander Sanchez Rola (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a first input query from a client device, generating a first set of related queries based on the first input query, executing a search to generate a first response to the first input query, storing the first response, the first input query, and the first set of related queries in a cache such that the first response is associated with the first input query and the...